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[Those sounds you hear are him unpacking stuff.]

So, uh, anyone wanna bet on Vegas being the next Town of Crazy Numbered Hijinks? I mean, that light looked pretty similar to the stuff that shot up from here a few months ago. Does this mean it's less of a "Locke City" thing and more of a--what the hell.

[More rustling and then he flips the feed to video to show off a sword]

I am getting really tired of finding stuff in places when it wasn't there a week ago. Pulses I can handle. Finding swords in my suitcase or boots under the bed or bows in the closet, not so much. Next it'll be axes in the freezer or something, I swear to God.

[Siiiiigh]

Anyone, d'you think the pink light means it's an Earth thing and not just a Locke City thing?

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You're from one of those worlds, then, with real monsters...

How "giant" are we talking? Regarding the spiders, I mean.

Uh.

[Give him a second]

Okay, I'm about five feet tall now. Spiders were at least six feet tall and maybe ten feet long.

You're short. You sound like an adult, and you're... really short.

[Oops, that's kind of rude.]

[But he's used to this. He sighs]

Mom was 4'9". My tallest relative on her side that I'm related to by blood is 5'5". Ryans are short. Thorssons on the other hand...

So aren't you technically a... dwarf, at that height? Or midget? I forget, which is the politically correct term.

[It's neither. Incidentally, it's neither. :| ]

Uh, neither. "Little person" is, if anything is. Technically I think Mom was considered one, though she was just short and didn't, like, have any growth or hormone disorders or anything, but I'm not.

[He was curious and looked it up once.

Another sigh]

Yet, anyway. Past-me was an actual Dwarf. Like, the fantasy type.

Oh, so... your people were reviled and persecuted for centuries by other races, and really liked gold and money?

...possibly? We were homeless thanks to a dragon, and I don't think Elves liked us all that much but that's all I got.

[Sigh L]

But aren't elves short, too?

...also six-foot spiders shouldn't be physically possible. Wouldn't their exoskeletons collapse under the weight of their body mass? Arthropods only work because their mass is very small, ordinarily... anything bigger than a Goliath beetle or a bird-eating tarantula can't wear its bones on the outside.

No, the ones I knew were pretty tall. And dude? There was a wizard in the company. And dragons. I don't think Earth laws and stuff held there.

If your feet stayed on the ground and people hated other people, some laws held.

Was the wizard homeless, too?

[...point]

No clue.

There's a homeless man who hangs out in the park who says he's a wizard. Maybe he's numbered and you should talk to him.

[A pause. Oh L]

I'll wait and see if he winds up on this. Safer that way.

He's perfectly harmless as long as you stay away when he's holding a paper bag, or avoid talking about aliens. Aliens really upset him.

Aliens really upset me. Just saying. Still, it's probably safer in a general sense. Someone less harmless might overhear.

Jefferson Truant, the Vagabond Magician!

...

[A long pause]

I'll. Keep him in mind.

[No he won't]

...so it didn't give you an echo. I guess that's probably not your wizard.

[He sounds. So. Disappointed.]

Sorry.

[Oh L. You're like that slightly strange yet rather friendly stray cat.]

[You should be sorry, oh my God.]

It's OK. I guess.

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